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- From: jan@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Jan Vorbrueggen)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Did Microsoft decree a byte order?
- Date: 04 Jan 1996 13:49:02 GMT
- Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
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- In-reply-to: Joe Keane's message of Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:42:33 GMT
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- In article <jgkDKMn2x.2KA@netcom.com> Joe Keane <jgk@netcom.com> writes:
-
- What if GIF files didn't work between machines? Or what about tar files?
- What if you compress a file and can't uncompress it on a different machine?
- People would say that someone is an incompetent bozo, and they'd be right.
-
- Irrelevant. These formats are expressly designed for interchange, and they
- carry a hefty performance penalty because of it. The X protocol is another
- example. For almost all other cases, the equivalent of a core dump is just
- fine.
-
- Performance is a fine excuse but, take it from me, it's just an excuse.
-
- Nonsense. Ever tried reading a 50 MByte array iteratively with a working set
- of 2 MB (old example, scale up to the numbers to your liking)? When you're
- spending a third of your CPU just shuffling the data around, you sure don't
- want to spend another factor of three (8-)) just to satisfy that request for
- portability.
-
- Jan
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